Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field. "
Sydney Pollack
Field
Wonderful
Well
Related Quotes:
" If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe you shouldn't go off and do what the world thinks of as more personal films with lesser-known people. But I think I've fooled everybody. I've made personal films all along. I just made them in another form. "
Sydney Pollack
People
Wonder
Think
" I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor. "
Sydney Pollack
Believe
Living
Actor
" I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated. "
Sydney Pollack
Learned
Being
About
" It doesn't matter what I'm doing - I wish it was something else. If I'm producing, I wish I was directing. If I'm directing, I wish I was doing almost anything else! "
Sydney Pollack
Anything
I Wish
Doing
" You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it. "
Sydney Pollack
Presentation
About
Another
" I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard. "
Sydney Pollack
Subject
Get
Hard
" There isn't a studio in the world that wouldn't burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie. "
Sydney Pollack
World
Half
Get
" With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art. "
Sydney Pollack
Movies
Work
Culture
" American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific. "
Sydney Pollack
Quality
American
True
" There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money. "
Sydney Pollack
Ever
Really
Money
" Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time. "
Sydney Pollack
Intense
Feel
Without
" There aren't rules in a romance, so they can be played any number of ways. "
Sydney Pollack
Rules
Played
Ways
" Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle. "
Sydney Pollack
Journalistic
Really
Angle
" I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth. "
Sydney Pollack
Think
Truth
Go
" I always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't. "
Sydney Pollack
Always
Craft
Go
" But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood. "
Sydney Pollack
United States
Hollywood
Mexico
" I will not ever say that it's good to start with too little preparation, because that's patently not true. But I don't rehearse the way a lot of directors do, to stage a scene in terms of manners and attitudes and lock them in. "
Sydney Pollack
True
Start
Say
" I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about. "
Sydney Pollack
Depressed
Anything
Get
" There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic. "
Sydney Pollack
View
Point Of View
People
" I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't know how to invent those jokes. "
Sydney Pollack
Hell
Laugh
Sight
" Even with 'Three Days of the Condor,' I wanted to do a thriller. But I was still concentrating on the Faye Dunaway-Robert Redford relationship in that film. "
Sydney Pollack
Days
Film
Relationship
" Like a lot of New Yorkers, I assumed that I knew all about the U.N. I was shocked to find out it's not like anything I had in mind. There are only six languages accepted there. It's considered international territory. "
Sydney Pollack
New
Only
Anything
" I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility. "
Sydney Pollack
Morning
Boring
Responsibility
" You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices. "
Sydney Pollack
People
Choices
Fighting
" Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've got to get to it and get to it now - get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick. "
Sydney Pollack
Gun
Fast
You
" You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself. "
Sydney Pollack
Trust
Yourself
Change
" Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies. "
Sydney Pollack
Sunday
Childhood
Weekend
" Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism. "
Sydney Pollack
Terrorism
Film
Going
" Every time I am directing, I question why in God's name I'm doing it again. It's like hitting yourself in the forehead with a hammer. "
Sydney Pollack
Name
Time
Yourself
" I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid. "
Sydney Pollack
Remembered
Myself
Kid